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Deburg, William Lloyd Van was born on May 8, 1948 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Son of Lloyd Everett and Cora Ellen Van Deburg.
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The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
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Despite increased interest in the lives of American slaves, the slave elite has been accorded only shallow study by historians, leaving the topic to unfavorable stereotypes, legend, and undocumented assertions. In this revelatory work William Van Deburg takes up the case of the black slave driver, examining the conflicting depictions given in histories, accounts of white southerners and antebellum travelers, and narratives of fugitive slaves and exbondsmen. He describes the daily lives and duties of black drivers, and refuting the stereotype of cruel collaborator, shows that their role neither psychologically destroyed slave drivers nor turned them into sadistic oppressors. Socially and emotionally tied to their fellow slaves, the bondsmen identified with their interests more much closely than with those of the owner. Van Deburg concludes this valuable revisionist work with a useful essay on his primary sources.
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A New Day in Babylon: Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-75 by Van Deburg (1992-08-01)
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 by William L. Van Deburg (1993-11-01)
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The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies) by William L. Van Deburg (1979-05-02)
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
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The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new aesthetic. Van Deburg contends that although its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution--one in culture and consciousness--that has changed the context of race in America. "New Day in Babylon is an extremely intelligent synthesis, a densely textured evocation of one of American history's most revolutionary transformations in ethnic group consciousness."--Bob Blauner, New York Times Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1993
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William Lloyd Van Deburg
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William Lloyd Van Deburg, American History educator. National Defense Education Act fellow, 1970-1973; Penrose Fund grantee American Philosophical Society, 1974, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantee, 1975, Danforth Foundation grantee, 1975-1981,Spencer Foundation grantee, 1979. Member Organisation American Historians, Southern History Association.
Education
Bachelor, Western Michigan U., 1970; Master of Arts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1973.
Career
Assistant professor of history department Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973-1979; associate professor of history department Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979-1985; chairperson department Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981-1984; professor department Afro-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1985. Consultant Ednl. Testing Svc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1979-1980, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi, since 1979.
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The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
(Despite increased interest in the lives of American slave...)
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New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
( The most comprehensive account available of the rise an...)
- A New Day in Babylon: Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-75 by Van Deburg (1992-08-01)
- New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 by William L. Van Deburg (1993-11-01)
- The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies) by William L. Van Deburg (1979-05-02)
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The Slave Drivers: Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Membership
Member Organisation American Historians, Southern History Association.
Connections
Married Alice Honeywell, July 1, 1967 (divorced February 1988). Children: Marcie, Theodore. Married Diane Sommers, June 17, 1989.
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American
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National Defense Education Act fellow, 1970-1973. Penrose Fund grantee American Philosophical Society, 1974, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantee, 1975, Danforth Foundation grantee, 1975-1981,Spencer Foundation grantee, 1979.National Defense Education Act fellow, 1970-1973. Penrose Fund grantee American Philosophical Society, 1974, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantee, 1975, Danforth Foundation grantee, 1975-1981,Spencer Foundation grantee, 1979.